Pour m'esloigner e changer de contrée (Alessandro Striggio)

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• (Posted 2023-06-20)  CPDL #74225:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2023-06-20).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 274 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Lyrics have been chosen from Jeanice Brooks' Women's Voices, deviating slightly from Striggio's book

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Title: Pour m'esloigner e changer de contrée
Composer: Alessandro Striggio
Lyricist: Mellin de Saint-Gelais
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1570 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 32
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Original text and translations

French text Pour m'esloigner e changer de contrée, Autre amitié en mon coeur n'est entrée. Le vostre y fut un coup si bien reçue, Qu'elle n'en peut que par mort faire yssue, Et ne croy point qu'avec moy elle meure, Si rien de nous apres nous faict demeure. Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Women's Voices (Jeanice Brooks, 2000) p. 221

English translation Although you leave me and change countries no other love has entered in my heart. Your love was there a blow so well received that it can escape only through death, and I do non believe that it will die with me if anything of us after us remains. Translation by Jeanice Brooks